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Reliable estimation of illuminant chromaticity is crucial for simulating color constancy and for white balancing digital images. However, estimating illuminant chromaticity from a single image is an ill-posed task, in general, and existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Eytan Lifshitz , Dani Lischinski

Illuminant estimation aims to infer scene illumination from image measurements despite intrinsic ambiguities between surface reflectance and lighting. Most existing methods operate on trichromatic RGB images and are therefore fundamentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 G. Dofri Vidarsson , Liying Lu , Sabine Süsstrunk

Visual slam technology is one of the key technologies for robot to explore unknown environment independently. Accurate estimation of camera pose based on visual sensor is the basis of autonomous navigation and positioning. However, most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Deng Su , Dehong Chong

We propose a novel inverse rendering method that enables the transformation of existing indoor panoramas with new indoor furniture layouts under natural illumination. To achieve this, we captured indoor HDR panoramas along with real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Guanzhou Ji , Azadeh O. Sawyer , Srinivasa G. Narasimhan

Advances in high dynamic range (HDR) lighting estimation from a single image have opened new possibilities for augmented reality (AR) applications. Predicting complex lighting environments from a single input image allows for the realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zitian Zhang , Joshua Urban Davis , Jeanne Phuong Anh Vu , Jiangtao Kuang , Jean-François Lalonde

In this paper, we introduce Harmonics Virtual Lights (HVL), to model indirect light sources for interactive global illumination of dynamic 3D scenes. Virtual Point Lights (VPL) are an efficient approach to define indirect light sources and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Pierre Mézières , François Desrichard , David Vanderhaeghe , Mathias Paulin

We propose a neural inverse rendering approach that jointly reconstructs geometry, spatially varying reflectance, and lighting conditions from multi-view images captured under varying directional lighting. Unlike prior multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xu Cao , Takafumi Taketomi

We consider the problem of 3D object pose estimation. While much recent work has focused on the RGB domain, the reliance on accurately annotated images limits their generalizability and scalability. On the other hand, the easily available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Georgios Georgakis , Srikrishna Karanam , Ziyan Wu , Jana Kosecka

Image summary, an abridged version of the original visual content, can be used to represent the scene. Thus, tasks such as scene classification, identification, indexing, etc., can be performed efficiently using the unique summary. Saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Preeti Meena , Himanshu Kumar , Sandeep Yadav

Instance segmentation of planar regions in indoor scenes benefits visual SLAM and other applications such as augmented reality (AR) where scene understanding is required. Existing methods built upon two-stage frameworks show satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yaxu Xie , Jason Rambach , Fangwen Shu , Didier Stricker

We present a method to estimate an HDR environment map from a narrow field-of-view LDR camera image in real-time. This enables perceptually appealing reflections and shading on virtual objects of any material finish, from mirror to diffuse,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Gowri Somanath , Daniel Kurz

We present Lighting in Motion (LiMo), a diffusion-based approach to spatiotemporal lighting estimation. LiMo targets both realistic high-frequency detail prediction and accurate illuminance estimation. To account for both, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Christophe Bolduc , Julien Philip , Li Ma , Mingming He , Paul Debevec , Jean-François Lalonde

We propose a scene-level inverse rendering framework that uses multi-view images to decompose the scene into geometry, a SVBRDF, and 3D spatially-varying lighting. Because multi-view images provide a variety of information about the scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 JunYong Choi , SeokYeong Lee , Haesol Park , Seung-Won Jung , Ig-Jae Kim , Junghyun Cho

We present a method to accelerate global illumination computation in dynamic environments by taking advantage of limitations of the human visual system. A model of visual attention is used to locate regions of interest in a scene and to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yang Li Hector Yee

We present a physics-based inverse rendering method that learns the illumination, geometry, and materials of a scene from posed multi-view RGB images. To model the illumination of a scene, existing inverse rendering works either completely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Youming Deng , Xueting Li , Sifei Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We present GaSLight, a method that generates spatially-varying lighting from regular images. Our method proposes using HDR Gaussian Splats as light source representation, marking the first time regular images can serve as light sources in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Christophe Bolduc , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Zhixin Shu , Jean-François Lalonde

The 3D localisation of an object and the estimation of its properties, such as shape and dimensions, are challenging under varying degrees of transparency and lighting conditions. In this paper, we propose a method for jointly localising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Alessio Xompero , Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla , Apostolos Modas , Pascal Frossard , Andrea Cavallaro

Estimating scene lighting from a single image or video remains a longstanding challenge in computer vision and graphics. Learning-based approaches are constrained by the scarcity of ground-truth HDR environment maps, which are expensive to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ruofan Liang , Kai He , Zan Gojcic , Igor Gilitschenski , Sanja Fidler , Nandita Vijaykumar , Zian Wang

Beyond novel view synthesis, Neural Radiance Fields are useful for applications that interact with the real world. In this paper, we use them as an implicit map of a given scene and propose a camera relocalization algorithm tailored for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Arthur Moreau , Nathan Piasco , Moussab Bennehar , Dzmitry Tsishkou , Bogdan Stanciulescu , Arnaud de La Fortelle

The task of estimating the spatial layout of cluttered indoor scenes from a single RGB image is addressed in this work. Existing solutions to this problems largely rely on hand-craft features and vanishing lines, and they often fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Yuzhuo Ren , Chen Chen , Shangwen Li , C. -C. Jay Kuo